Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Strange Dominique Strauss Kahn for
It was very strange to see, a senior global as the Managing Director of IMF, handcuffed and led away by police Yorkers against a magistrate's court. Before, had been withdrawn from the first class of Ar France plane that move to his native France. He was accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper of the hotel where he was staying.
Dominique Strauss Kahn, we're talking about, was sued by a waitress at the Sofitel hotel in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan. It was later learned that the complainant is an African immigrant who works part time at the luxurious accommodations and Strauss identified in lineup police. It was also known that the official of the fund was carefully inspected to see if he was under the fingernails, the DNA fingerprints of the complainant, or if there were signs of minor injuries on his body. Allegedly took tissue samples, hair and "other evidence in the investigation" . Dominique Strauss Kahn
not only the chief executive of the Fund, but a serious contender to succeed President Nicolas Sarkozy of France in the 2012 elections. After the scandal, all the scaffolding that supported Strauss became shattered. It is possible that New York police has overreacted, trying to give a message that the arm the law is equal for all, and that, however lofty it is the character, if you committed a crime should be tried and convicted.
Strauss pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations. But the Manhattan judge, Melissa Jackson refused the offer of a million dollar bond proposed by counsel, explaining its decision, the concern that caused it hear that the defendant "was in the top of a Kennedy Airport plane ", ready to go to Paris. Now Strauss should continue detention while awaiting a jury of 23 citizens decide, by simple majority, if he deems it or not. The prosecutor accuses the agency official international, with six counts, including sexual crime in the first degree and attempted rape, so that his sentence could be up to 25 years.
Few knew the name of the IMF's head, occasionally I mentioned in a note related to the important activities of credit agency. Now the whole world knows it, unfortunately by a sexual scandal. Strauss's images with his black trench coat, cuffed, taken from their arms by detectives, before the court in the dock, have turned the planet. And even if his innocence is established later, his career as a socialist candidate for President of France has been severely affected. His own position in the Fund is in danger.
From France, Secretary of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, described as humiliating pictures posted. The conservative parliamentary leader, Jean Francois Cope, asked his friends-government silence and prudence. "I also think the image of France. Imagine that this picture tour the whole world is all a question " he said. For French law, the images broadcast were illegal, because it can be shown to detainees in custody, involves a violation of the presumption of innocence and privacy.
And returning to our concepts. Consider outrageous a character in the level of Dominique Strauss Kahn, assume such a risk and so clumsily, with consequences that a man of his category should be more widely known. U.S. justice works, quickly and efficiently, if the prosecution is successful, a jury of ordinary citizens decide whether or not, be condemned.
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